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betweengenesisfrogs · 5 years

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Homestuck is My Favorite Sprite Comic

Yes, you read that right.

Homestuck is my favorite sprite comic.

Those of you who remember the earlier days of the internet are probably looking at this post in disbelief right about now. Others of you might be scratching your heads, not knowing what I’m talking about.

But here’s my pitch: Homestuck is the culmination of an entire genre of internet art, and the tools that make it so powerful are the very tools that made that genre once so reviled.

Homestuck is the greatest and most successful sprite comic of all time.

And honestly, I’ve wanted to talk about that for ages, so let’s do it.

WHAT SPRITE COMICS WERE

Many of my readers are probably too young to remember the era of sprite comics. So: what were sprite comics?

Sprite comics were a genre of webcomics made entirely by taking pixel art from video games – especially character art, called “sprites,” but also backgrounds and other images—and placing them into panels to tell a story. They were near-ubiquitous on the internet in the early 2000s, emerging right as webcomics in general were seeking to establish themselves as an art form.

They were not, shall we say, known for their quality. The low bar to access meant that art skill was not an obstacle to starting one. The folks behind the huge swell of them tended to be young people, kids and early teenagers recreating the plots of their favorite video games with new OCs—not the most advanced writers or artists. They were the early 2000s’ quintessential example of ephemeral, childish art. Unfortunately, they look even worse today—blown-up pixels don’t hold up well when displayed on higher-resolution monitors.

Today, they’re mostly forgotten, remembered only as a weird, strange moment in the youth of the internet. Someone who evoked them today, such as a blogger who compared them to one of the most successful webcomics of all time, would be inviting good-natured teasing at the very least.

It would be unfair to dismiss them entirely, though. In this low-stakes environment, comics where the author could bring more skill—engaging writing, legitimately funny jokes, or especially, a real ability to work with pixel art—really stood out. (Unsurprisingly, these authors tended to skew a bit older.)

The obvious one to mention is Bob and George. Bob and George wasn’t the first sprite comic, but it was the most influential. Conceived initially as Mega Man-themed filler for a hand-drawn comic about superheroes, it quickly became a merging of the two concepts, with the original characters made into Mega Man-style sprites, full of running gags, humorous retellings of the Mega Man games, elaborate storylines about time travel, and robots eating ice cream. It was generally agreed, even among sprite comic haters, that Bob and George was a pretty good comic. Worth mentioning also are 8-Bit Theater, which turned the plot of the first Final Fantasy into a spectacular and hilarious farce, and of course Kid Radd, my second favorite sprite comic. (More on that later.)

But even if you weren’t looking for greatness—there was something just damn fun about them. The passion of sprite comic authors was clear, even if their ideas didn’t always cohere. To this day, I think the sprite comic scene has the same appeal pulp art does—it’s crude and rough, full of garbage to sift through, but every so often, something deeply sincere and bizarre shines through, and the culture of its authors is a fascinating object of study in itself.

Okay, full disclosure: I was one of the people who made a sprite comic. I’ve written about my experiences with that in more depth elsewhere, but yeah, I was on the inside of this scene, rather than a disinterested observer, and from the inside, maybe it’s a lot easier to see the appeal.

Still, let me make this claim: even with all their flaws, sprite comics were doing some incredibly interesting things, and Homestuck is heir to their legacy.

TAKE ME DOWN TO RECOLOR CITY

One of the problems people always had with sprite comics was the sprites themselves. They’re the most repetitive thing in the world. You just keep copying and pasting the same images over and over again, maybe with a few tweaks. That’s not really being an artist, is it? It’s so lazy. Re-drawing things from different angles keeps things dynamic, develops your skill, and makes your work better in general. Right?

I’m mostly in agreement. Certainly I think it’s fair to rag on the Control-Alt-Delete guy, along with other early bad webcomics, for copy-pasting their characters while dropping in new expressions and mass-producing tepid strips. And to be fair, digging through bad sprite comics often felt like an exercise in seeing the same slightly-edited recolors of Mega Man characters over and over again. You got really tired of that same body with its blobby feet and hands.

(It should be noted, though, that there were folks in the sprite comic scene who could pixel art the quills off a porcupine. I salute you, brave pixel art masters of 2006. I hope you all got into your chosen art school.)

All this said, I think the repetitive and simplistic nature of sprite comics was often their biggest strength.

THE POWER OF ABSTRACTION

In his classic work Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud makes an observation about cartooning that has stayed with me to this day.

McCloud notes that simple, abstract drawings, like faces that are only few lines and dots on a page, resonate with us more strongly than more detailed drawings. This is because our minds fill in what’s missing on the page. We ascribe human depth to simple gestures and expressions based on our own emotions and experiences – and this makes us feel closer to these characters as readers. Secretly, simple cartoons can be one of the most powerful forms of storytelling. If you want your readers to fall in love with your characters, draw them simply, and let them fill them in.

Video game sprites work very well in this regard. They have that same simplicity that cartoons do. In fact, I’d be willing to bet a huge part of the success of SNES-era RPGs was simple, almost childlike character sprites drawing people in. I think sprites did the same for sprite comics.

Here’s the weird thing: Bob and George worked. Despite four different characters being variations on the same friggin’ Mega Man sprite in different colors, they immediately began to seem like different people with distinct personalities. For me, George’s befuddled, helpless dismay immediately comes to mind whenever I picture his face, while with Mega Man himself it’s usually a wide-eyed, childlike glee. I would never confuse them. This, despite the fact that the only actual difference between their faces is that George is blonde. It’s pretty clear what happened. The personalities the author established for them through dialogue and storytelling shone through, and my brain did the rest.

Sprites, in short, were a canvas upon which the mind could project any story the author wanted to tell. Even the most minute differences in pixel art came to stand, in the best sprite comics, for wide divergences in personality and ideals, once the reader spent enough time with them to adapt to their style of representation.

Wait a minute, haven’t we seen this somewhere before? Character designs that focus on variations on a theme, with subtle differences that nonetheless render them instantly recognizable?

Oh, right.

Look at what greets us on the very first page of Homestuck. An absurdly simple cartoon boy, abstracted to a ridiculous degree—he doesn’t even have arms!—followed a whole bunch of characters that follow suit. Though many other representations of the characters emerge, these little figures never quite go away, do they? Why is that?

Simple: they’re very easy to manipulate. They’re modular—you can give John arms or not, depending on whether it’s useful. You can put him in a whole variety of poses and save them to a template. You can change out his facial expressions with copy and paste. You can give him a new haircut and call him Jake. It’s all very quick and easy.

Sprite comics proliferated because they were very easy to mass-produce. Andrew Hussie’s original conception of Homestuck was very similar: something he could put out very quickly and easily, where even the most elaborate ideas could rely on existing assets to be sped smoothly along. We all know the result: an incredible production machine, churning out unfathomable amounts of content from 2009-2012. I’d say it was a good call.

But it goes way deeper than that. The modular nature of sprites always suggested a kind of modularity to the sprite comic premise. George and Mega Man were different people, true, but also two variations on a theme. Was there something underlying them that they had in common? Perhaps their similarity says something like: We exist in a world which has a certain set of rules? One of my favorite conceits from Bob and George was that when characters visited the past, they were represented by NES-era Mega Man sprites, while in the present, they were SNES sprites, and in the future, the author used elaborate splicing to render them as 32-bit Mega Man 8 sprites or similar.

Suppose there was a skilled cartoonist thinking about his next big project, who wanted to tell a story centered around this kind of modularity, a narrative that was built out of iterative, swappable pieces by its very design. He might very well create a sprite comic named Homestuck.

Homestuck is a story about a game that creates a hyperflexible mythology for its players, where the villains, challenges, and setting change depending upon what players bring to the experience, yet which all share underlying goals and assumptions. What more perfect opportunity to create a modular story as well? Different groups of kids and trolls have motifs that get swapped around to produce new characters, whether that’s through ectobiology, the Scratch, or the eerie parallels between the kids and trolls’ sessions. And yet each character can be analyzed as an individual.

This is an incredible way to build a huge emotional investment from your readers. Not only does this kind of characterization invite analysis, the abstractions draw readers in to generate their own headcanons and interpretations. A deep commitment to pluralism is at the heart of Hussie’s character design. Then, too, it encourages readers to build their own new designs from these models. Kidswaps, bloodswaps, fantrolls—these have long been the heart of Homestuck’s fandom. And what are bloodswaps if not sprite recolors for a new generation? With the added bonus that now a change in color carries narrative weight, evoking new moods and identities for these characters in ways that early sprite comics could only dream of.

In Hussie’s hands, even the dreaded copy-and-paste takes on heroic depth of meaning. Even when Hussie moves away from sprites to his own loose art style, he continues to remix what we’ve previously see. Indeed, Hussie talks about how he would go out of his way to edit his own art into new images even when it would take more time than drawing something new. Why? Because he wanted to evoke that very feeling of having seen this before—the visual callback to go along with the many conceptual and verbal callbacks that echo throughout Homestuck. This is at the heart of what Doc Scratch (speaking for Hussie) called “circumstantial simultaneity:” we are invited to compare two moments or two characters, to see what they have in common, or how they contrast. Everything in Paradox Space is deeply linked with everything else. And Hussie establishes this in our minds using nothing less than the tool sprite comics were so deeply reviled for: the “lazy” repetition of an image.

(It’s fitting that some of the most jaw-droppingly gorgeous images in Homestuck—dream bubble scenery and the like—are the result of Hussie taking things he’s made before and combining them into fantastic dreamscapes.)

But it all started with the hyperflexible, adaptable character images Hussie created at the very beginning of Homestuck.

And if you need more proof that Homestuck is a sprite comic, I think we need look no further than what Hussie, and the rest of the Homestuck community call these images.

We call them sprites.

THE FIRST GENRE-BENDERS

Was Andrew Hussie influenced by sprite comics in the development of Homestuck? It’s hard to say, but as a webcomic artist in the first decade of the 2000s, he was surely aware of them. It’s likely that he quickly realized that his quick, adaptable images served the same purposes as a sprite in a video game or a sprite comic, and chose to call them that.

One purpose I haven’t mentioned up until now: sprites lend themselves very well to animations. In fact, in their original context of video games, that’s exactly what they’re for: frames of art that can be used to show a character running, jumping, posing, moving across a screen. It’s not surprising, then, that sprite comic makers quickly saw the utility in that.

Homestuck was, in fact, not the first webcomic to make Flash animations part of its story. There were experiments with various gifs and such in other comics, but I think sprite comics were among the most successful at becoming the multi-media creations that would come to be known as hypercomics..

Take a look at this animation from Bob and George. It represents a climactic final confrontation against a long-standing villain, using special effects to make everything dramatic, but ultimately, like many a Homestuck animation, leads to kind of a pyscheout. The drama and the humor of the moment are clear, though. This relies in large part on the music—which is taken directly from the game Chrono Trigger. This makes total sense. Interestingly, it also contains voice acting, which is something Homestuck never tried—probably because it would run contrary to its ideals of pluralism. What I find fascinating is that in sprite comics, animations like these served a very similar purpose to Homestuck’s big flashes: elevating a big moment into something larger-than-life. Another good example is this sequence from Crash and Bass. Seriously, it seems like every sprite comic maker wanted to try their hand at Flash animation.

(By the way, it’s a lot harder than it looks!! I envy Hussie his vectorized sprites. Pixel art is a PAIN to work with in the already buggy program that is Flash.)

The result: because of the sprites themselves, sprite comics were among the first works to play around with the border between comics and other media in the way that would come to be thought of as quintessentially Homestuck.

What it also meant was that another genre emerged in parallel with sprite comics: the sprite animation. Frequently these would retell the story of a particular game, offer a spectacular animated battle sequence, parody the source material, or all three. Great examples include this animation for Mega Man Zero, and this frankly preposterous crossover battle sequence. Chris Niosi’s TOME also found its earliest roots as an animation series of this kind. You also found plenty of sprite-based flash games, in which players could manipulate game characters in a way that was totally outside the context of the original works.

The website the vast majority of these games and animations were hosted on?

Newgrounds, best known to Homestuck fans as the website Hussie crashed in 2011 while trying to upload Cascade.

What’s less talked about is that Hussie was friends, or at least on conversational terms with, the owner of the site, hence the idea to host his huge animation there in the first place, and other flashes, like the first Alterniabound, were initially hosted there as well.

It’s hard to believe that Hussie wasn’t at least a little familiar with the Newgrounds scene. I suspect that he largely conceived of Homestuck as part of the world of “Flash animation—” which in 2009 meant the wide variety of things that were hosted on Newgrounds, including sprite animations.

The freedom and fluidity sprite comics had to change into games and animations and back into comics again was one of their most fascinating traits. Homestuck’s commitment to media-bending needs, at this point, no introduction. But what’s less known is that sprite comics were exploring that territory first—that Homestuck, in short, is the kind of thing they wanted to grow up to be.

PUT ME IN THE GAME

I would be a fool not to mention another big thing Homestuck and sprite comics have in common: a character who is literally the author in cartoon form, running around doing goofy things and messing with the story. This was an incredibly common cliché in sprite comics, no doubt because of Bob and George, who did it early on and never looked back. You might have noticed that the animation I linked above concerns a showdown between Bob and George’s author, David Anez—depicted, delightfully, as another Mega Man recolor—and a mysterious alternate author named Helmut—who is like Mega Man plus Sepiroth I think? It’s all very strange. I could ramble for hours about the relationship between Hussie and the alt-author villains of Homestuck and what it all means, but I’m not sure I can nail anything down with certainty for these two. Maybe Bob and George was never quite that metaphysical.

But yes, bringing the author into the story in some form was already a cliché by the time Homestuck started up. Indeed, I think that’s why Hussie’s character refers to it as “a bad idea” to break the fourth wall—he’s recognizing that people will have seen this before, and are already tired of this sort of shit. And then he goes and does it anyway and makes it somehow brilliant, because he’s Andrew Hussie.

Homestuck breathes life into the cliché by taking it in a metaphysical/metafictional direction. I don’t think that was really the motivation for most sprite comic authors, though. Let’s see if we can dig a little deeper.

I think the cliché kept happening because sprite comic authors were writing about a subject that very closely concerned themselves: video games. I’m only kind of joking. The thing about video games is that even though they’re made for everyone, playing through one yourself feels like an intensely personal experience. You develop an emotional relationship to a world, to its characters, that feels distinctly your own. Now, suddenly, thanks to the magic of sprites, you have an opportunity to tell stories about that world for others to read. Of course you’re going to want to put yourself in the story in some form.

When it wasn’t author characters in sprite comics, it was OCs. You know Dr. Wily? Well here’s my own original villain, Dr. Vindictus. You know Mega Man? Here’s my new character, Super Cool Man. He hangs out with Mega Man and they beat the bad guys together. Stuff like that. Most sprite comics retold the story of a game, or multiple games in a big crossover format, with original elements added in. There was quite a lot of “Link and Sonic and Mega Man are all friends with my OC and they hang out at his house.”

What’s interesting, though, is that because these sprite comics were very aware that they were about video games, this was where they sometimes got very meta. It started with humorous observation—hey, isn’t it funny that Link goes around breaking into people’s houses and smashing their pots? But sometimes, it grew into more serious commentary. Is Mega Man trapped in a never-ending cycle, doomed to fight the same fight against the same mad scientist until the end of time? Is it worth it, being a video game hero?

Enter Homestuck. What I’ve been dancing around this whole time is:

Homestuck is a sprite comic…because Homestuck is a video game.

Or more specifically, Homestuck’s a comic about a video game called SBURB, where the lines between the game and the comic about the game blur as characters wrestle with the narratives around them, both those encoded into the game and those encoded into our expectations.

Homestuck presents the fantasy of many a sprite comic maker: I get to go on heroic quests, I get to change the world and become a god. I get to be part of the video game. And then it asks the same question certain sprite comics were beginning to ask:

Is it worth it, to be that hero?

I want to tell you about my second favorite sprite comic, a comic called Kid Radd.

Kid Radd distinguished itself from other sprite comics of the time by being a completely original production. Its sprites looked like they could be from a variety of NES and SNES-era video games, but they were all done from scratch, and the games they purported to represent were all fictional. Kid Radd used animations with original music, and sometimes interactive, clickable games, to tell its story. It also used all sorts of neat programming tricks to make it load faster on the internet of the early 2000s, which was great—unfortunately, these same techniques made it break as web technology evolved, something Homestuck fans in 2019 can definitely relate to. The good news is, fans have maintained a dedicated and reformatted archive where the comics can still be seen and downloaded.

Kid Radd’s premise is that video game characters themselves are conscious and alive—more specifically, their sprites. Sprites developed consciousness as human beings projected personality and identity onto them, remaining aware of their status as video game constructs while also seeking to be something more. The story follows the titular Kid Radd, at first in the context of his own game, commenting on the choices the player controlling him. He must endure every death, every strange decision along the way to save his girlfriend Sheena. Then the story expands into a larger context as Radd, Sheena, and many other video game characters are released onto the internet as data. They try to find their own identities and build a society for themselves, but struggle with the tendency toward violence that games have programmed into them. The story culminates in an honestly moving moment where Radd confronts the all-powerful creators of their reality—human beings.

It’s a very good comic.

The first sprite comic authors wanted to fuse real life with video games. Later sprite comic authors decided to ask: what would that really mean? Would it be painful? Would you suffer? Would you find a way to make your life meaningful all the same? Despite the limitations of sprite comics, these ideas had incredible potential, and in works like Kid Radd, they flourished.

Homestuck is heir to that legacy.

It takes the questions Kid Radd was asking, and asks them in new ways. It tries to understand, on an even deeper level, how the rules of video games shape our own minds and give us ways to understand ourselves.

At its heart, Homestuck is a sprite comic, and it might just be the greatest of them all.

EPILOGUE

I’ve seen a lot of good discussion recently on how Homestuck preserves a certain era of the internet like a time capsule: its culture, its technology, its assumptions, its memes.

I think sprite comics, too, are part of the culture that created Homestuck. Do I think Hussie spent the early 2000s recoloring Mega Man sprites? No, probably not. But what I do know is that sprite comics were part of his world. The first webcomic cartoonists came of age alongside an odd companion, the weird, overly sincere, dorky little sibling that was sprite comics. Like them or hate them, you couldn’t escape them. They were there.

And maybe a certain cartoonist saw a kind of potential in them, in the same way he summoned Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff from the depths of bad gamer culture.

Or maybe he just knew, as some sprite comic authors did, that the time was right for their kind of story.

On a personal level—Homestuck came along right when I needed it.

Around 2009, the bubble that was sprite comics finally burst. People were getting tired of them, or growing out of them, and blown-up sprites no longer looked so good on modern monitors.

I was more than a little heartbroken. I’d enjoyed Bob and George, read my fill of Mega Man generica, and fallen utterly in love with Kid Radd. I’d been working on my own sprite comic for a long time out of a sense that there was huge potential in them that we were only scratching the surface of. I’d dreamed of maybe someday doing something as amazing as the best of them did. But I was watching that world disappear. I had to admit to myself that my work wasn’t going to continue to find an audience. That I could live with. But it was painful to think that the potential I sensed, the feats of storytelling I wanted to see in the world, would never be realized.

And then, in the fall of 2010, a friend linked me to a comic that broke all the rules, that mixed animation, games, music, images and chatlogs. A comic that crafted its own sprites, just as Kid Radd did, and remixed its images into an ever-expanding web of associations and meanings. A comic that took on the idea of living inside a video game with relish and turned it into a gorgeous meditation on escaping the ideas and systems that control us.

That this comic would exist, let alone that it would succeed. That it would become one of the most popular creations of all time, that it would surpass other webcomics and break out into anime conventions and the real world, that it would become such a cultural juggernaut, to the point where it’s impossible to imagine an internet without Homestuck—

I can’t even put into words how happy that makes me. It’s the reason I’m still writing essays about Homestuck nearly eight years after I found it.

And it’s why Homestuck will always be my favorite sprite comic.

-Ari

[Notes: The image of the kids came from the ever-useful MSPA Wiki—please support and aid in their efforts to provide a good source of info about Homestuck! They need more support these days than ever.

For more on Homestuck’s place as a continuation of the zeitgeist of early 2000s experimental webcomics, this article by Sam Keeper at Storming the Ivory Tower is excellent and insightful.

Thanks for reading, y’all.]

#homestuck analysis #homestuck #homestuck's influences #hypercomics #understanding homestuck #sprite comics #internet culture

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silvanoir · 5 years

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where did I come from, where will I go (long post, sorry)

I came here from DeviantArt, after people were reposting and linking my fanart so I figured I might as well join and post myself... I stayed for the DC comics fandom (and later MCU movie fandom) and read and bought a lot of comics because of it. “Targeted” advertising (or advertising in general) doesn’t work on me, but what does work is people who genuinely enjoy a thing posting photos of the thing and talking about the thing and making recommendations. “Shipping” does as well... sometimes fan communities even get me into a ship, sometimes I think characters 1 and 2 have chemistry on my own... either way if something has a positive portrayal of a favorite ship, I am all over it. I was never here for porn so I don’t care about a porn ban (though I do enjoy the occasional but of tasteful erotica of fictional characters... I may be ace but I like seeing characters in love and enjoying themselves). I do care about people abandoning this place.

These big companies don’t get that by killing fan communities, they make me buy LESS stuff.

I don’t draw fanart anymore because I’m focusing on original art, but I will still be on DeviantArt 2019 and beyond (as long as that site lasts).

I was also on LiveJournal and technically still have an account there... but haven’t logged into in years after people started leaving, the communities I was in shut down, and LJ deleted all my photos. Still have some friends from there who are on here, shoutout to you!

Around the same time I was in yahoo groups but I backed out of them years ago as well. I was a moderator in some as well as a mod on an oekaki board (online drawing, not sure if these still exist?) and an owner of a webring back before there was social media and everyone made their own website... being a mod was a giant pain in the butt, let me tell ya, and I’d never do it again.

Was on MediaMiner (fanart site) in the early 2000s but left after getting hacked more than once, no idea if it still exists. I joined DeviantArt with others when it was clear MM was going to [bleep].

I used to be on various furry sites because I liked drawing/designing talking animal-people characters (drew them as a kid long before I ever had access to the internet, must have been the Disney/ Beatrix Potter/ Looney Tunes influence) but got tired after years of having to explain to people that no, furry doesn’t mean a pervert in a mascot costume, I am not that, some of us are regular folks who like plain old sci-fi/fantasy settings. It wore me out. So... bleh. Didn’t delete my accounts but they are gathering dust.

I was heavy into anime in my teens and 20s but the most of the anime nowadays doesn’t appeal to me, sooooo... (unless it’s continuations of things I liked long ago, then that gets my interest)

I had 2 separate fanfiction_dot_net accounts, neither of which I remember the log in info to and don’t care because I gave up writing fanfic long long ago, I’d rather just be a reader.

And before that it was various forums on various websites. Some I don’t even remember the names of, some are from the late 90s/early 2000s and have long since been deleted from the net because the owners didn’t/couldn’t pay server costs, others I don’t remember my login info, or can’t log into because I used an old e-mail that doesn’t exist anymore. I like discussions in forums but disliked that it was mostly dudes with dude-style interests in media... being in the mostly female-friendly spaces of LJ and Tumblr is so much nicer (despite any drama) than hearing the umpteenth argument over who would win in a race: Superman or The Flash, who would win in a fight: Superman or Goku.... I have never given a single solitary [bleep] about power levels. I know Reddit has lively fan forums but... too many dudes. (I’ve read some interesting threads on niche podcasts but its not enough to get me to join).

If I do join another fan community, it will probably be DreamWidth.

There’s no way in hell I’d ever join Facebook or Twitter or any of the sites they own because of the rampant personal data theft. I prefer being a semi-anonymous hermit!

I will say that I won’t LOSE anything important, other than connections and general enjoyment and not having any NEW things, if Tumblr goes down, because anything I made I have multiple files of saved on an external harddrive (learned my lesson years ago of not only websites dying on me but also whole computers), I also right-click-saved any art and tutorials from other people that I wanted to keep. I back-up everything at least once every 3 months. I’m considering buying a fireproof lockbox to put it in like the one I have my important personal documents in (it pays to be paranoid, kids!)

#long post #tumblr #internets #about me

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lattetimes · 6 years

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Callout Post: Commandomal/Creepypastajack

hi everyone, sorry that this post i’m making is not fun but this is incredibly serious. a kind person approached me with some information about a user on Deviantart, and this needs to be shared. i’ve been trying to wrap my head around all of this for the past days and i honestly can’t for the life of me.

the person who gave me this information will be left anonymous (since the user is scared of being harassed for showing me this), so i will be sharing this on their behalf. i am copy & pasting the information they sent to me, and will keep the warnings for the links provided in case any of the content may trigger someone. links are bolded, and another post will not have the link (to keep the user who sent me all this anonymous), but there will be a transcript of the chats for everyone if you can’t read the screenshots.

please, be careful around this person.

the person in this callout is a 22-year old. she is NOT a minor (and there is proof in the 3rd link- screenshot below saying she goes to college).

Her disgusting little series: https://creepypastajack.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&edit=0&q=Stainglass (I urge you to read carefully: this is not satire)

Her pettiness after a 16 year old girl she gaslighted (She’s 22) stopped taking crap from her: https://comments.deviantart.com/4/28631558/4454834204

(And just in case you need proof she’s over 20: https://creepypastajack.deviantart.com/art/El-Cadejo-On-Strike-635280479 (it’s in the comments)

Her sympathizing with the Joker (a known abuser) and blaming Harley Quinn: https://creepypastajack.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&edit=0&q=Joker

Her stalker-ish obsession with that one guy from Eddsworld that hasn’t worked on the comic for 9-ish years: https://creepypastajack.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&edit=0&q=Tord

Her bringing religion into a F###ING R.P. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.:

https://tdweallstarscamp.deviantart.com/art/Holy-Blackmail-666637195 (check comments)

https://total-drama-reboot.deviantart.com/art/Hell-Break-685927537

The journal entries of her throwing a tantrum and quitting the R.P:

https://creepypastajack.deviantart.com/journal/I-Can-t-Do-This-Anymore-687498888 (check the comments here, too)

https://creepypastajack.deviantart.com/journal/Why-I-Called-Everyone-Out-By-Name-687635692

https://creepypastajack.deviantart.com/journal/Don-t-Feel-Like-Myself-691654970

(This one is just her being ridiculous: https://creepypastajack.deviantart.com/journal/Devil-Won-This-Round-706091885)

(Found some Pseudo-incest-y R.P comments in some of these art submissions: https://creepypastajack.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&edit=0&q=Loki)

(All of the gallery examples have fetishing examples, but here’s a more recent R.P: https://comments.deviantart.com/1/733320123/4560036205)

(Also, all of her non-white characters (so, like, 4?) are stereotypes)

(I am so sorry you have to see this. If you want, you can post it. I’m still afraid she’ll send her hounds after me. I had to deal with a lot of her bullshit last year.)

attached are more screenshots, with the person giving me the link being left anonymous in order for them to avoid dealing with any sort of backlash.

anonymous: I'm sorry if it sounded negative. But it's been a decade. Most likely, He's moved on from Eddsworld, I mean, he is almost 30.

creepypastajack: This isn’t about Eddsworld, this is about getting Tord to return to doing his artwork again because those were his dreams before the bullies ruined everything for him

anonymous: Yeah, but look at the facts. It was 10 years ago. If anything, he's moved on. Heck, he could be making art again under a different name.

creepypastajack: If a bully causes you to give up on your dreams, that wound doesn’t just heal easily under a different name. Tord had full intentions of having his own series after he left Eddsworld but the bullies just wouldn’t quit and caused him to delete his Youtube as well. I’m just trying to encourage him to come back so all of his supporters can help heal the wounds not just because The Lord is leading me to but because I also care about his wellbeing. Have some compassion, why don’t you? He is a real person, not just some cartoon character that left early in the show.

anonymous: Actually, it does. People do it all the time. You never know. Plus, Ridgewell literally had to tell people to stop bothering him. Larsson's not upset, he's annoyed because both the haters and fans won't leave him alone.

creepypastajack: Well, if by any means you find an account somewhere with art that resembles Tord’s, let me know. Niether Tom, Edd, Matt or even Tord himself said that the fans who loved him had anything to do with this, they just said that Tord was being harassed without giving much detail. Thanks to The Lord, I was able to find proof that Tord was cyber bullied into leaving, photographic evidence as well as evidence that Tord leaving because of us was a lie fabricated by the same bullies to make him seem shallow. They are of the enemy and they sought to kill, steal and destroy. They wanted to destroy Tord’s reputation as well as his dreams. He is upset, I know he is because The Lord told me and I’m going to obey him and do everything I can to help him. Now it’s your turn for persecution...Why are you trying to push the Tord left because of the fans lie when photographic evidence of the bullying has been presented and just what are doing to help anyone on planet Earth? Why persecute the person who is trying to do something to help someone who was hurt? Are you in on it? Are you one of the bullies? Because after the way you acted on Total Drama Reboot, I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a hand in what happened to Tord...

anonymous: You know art styles can change, right? It literally came out of Ridgewell's mouth that it was all of the fans who were bothering Larsson. I didn't even know what eddsworld was until you started making art? I just looked into it. And those comments are not even cyberbullying, that's a bunch of stupid trolls that can't tell the difference between the character and the real thing. ...What did I do to you? I'm honestly confused.

creepypastajack: He said people and I quote “people” were harassing him, he never once said the fans were harassing him. Trolls are cybeybullies! If you are saying something rude to someone then you are indeed cyber bullying, especially if you’re saying something about someone behind their backs but of course you would be on their side, you came to T-Mack’s defense too after what she said about me. I’m not even surprised by you at this point...Whether they could tell the difference between real or fiction does not excuse their actions...They still hurt Tord’s feelings and they still made him give up on everything. You know exactly what you did to me, as I previously stated. You sided with a person who said terrible things about me where they thought I wouldn’t be able to see it and you kept attacking my characters when both me and my characters were in the right. I told you I forgave you for that and you completely ignored me then when you finally do say something to me, you’re actively trying to tear down something that I’m trying to do for good but this isn’t about me, you or even T-Mack this is about Tord and God’s will. Now, you can redeem yourself, change your ways, join the group and help us either support Tord or find more information about the bullying or you can just keep being the way you are while I continue to help out.

anonymous: I... I was just asking a question...I thought we were just having fun in TDR! It was like, the first time I've ever done something with people on the Internet! And that's what everyone was doing! Pixanne, Candy, Manda, T-Mack and DLZ accepted me with open arms, and I wanted to be your friend, too...

And then everything just went so crazy! Why did you turn Bunny into that?! You could've tried to talk it out with T-Mack (He wanted to talk it out), but all you did was start to bully everyone! And it was only the second episode! What did T-Mack say that made you flip the script and start drama?! Please, I just want to know!

creepypastajack: The fact that you think I’m the bully really shows how you think. I cannot associate with someone I can’t trust and T-Mack has proven to me that I can’t trust her. The first person who ever cyber bullied me started to get on Pixane for being friends with me and when T-Mack asked why I was a problem the person said my art was offensive then T-Mack agreed that I was problematic then when a few, more bullies started to complain about Thorn because their precious, snowflake brains can’t handle gospel, T-Mack agreed with them all and even linked them to some of my art and journal entries so they could harass me even more and you know what the worst part is? You, Candy and Pixane were all supposed to be my friends and you all sided with that two-faced fraud! Did any of your characters even think to ask Bunny what was wrong? Nope! She got the same cold, cruel treatment as me. Well, now both Vivian and Bunny are dead because of all of you so I hope you’re satisfied. You may have made me give up on T.D.R. momentarily but I will not let you keep Tord in this dark corner he’s currently trapped in. Once again, this isn’t about what happened in T.D.R. Tord getting his art back is more important to me than any of this petty drama.

anonymous: Ok. First off, T-Mack is a guy. Second, Pixane tried to talk to you, but you never explained what had happened to her. Third, I ASKED what was wrong through Waylon, and got ignored. I thought this was just a drama-filled R.P, but I'm a worrywart, so I asked just I case. You brought Bunny and Vivian's demise in order to get back at Candy. Don't blame other people for that. I...I'm just gonna go. Ok? No bad blood anymore. Please.

creepypastajack: I did explain to her and Candy both but they still sided with T-Mack over me. I wouldn’t have had to do that had she not done what she did. Fine, just no more tearing down anti-bullying groups at least, okay? I just wish you would apologize for what happened...

anonymous: was just asking a question... I'm a curious person. Goodbye.

creepypastajack: It sounded rude and you kept saying the same thing over and over after I had already answered you... It made me feel attacked...

anonymous: Sorry for sounding rude. Peace out.

creepypastajack: It’s okay.

#long post #callout post #incest mention

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superman86to99 · 7 years

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Superman: The Man of Steel #23 (July 1993)

REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN! In this issue: Steel vs. Superboy! I mean, "Superman” vs. “Superman”. The Man of Steel is battling some hoodlums armed with hi-tech killer weapons when the Metropolis Kid decides to butt in and "save him" in front of the cameras that follow him 24/7. (Side note: Was Superboy the first '90s reality TV star?) The Kid draws all the firepower to himself... accidentally causing the bad guys to shoot down a Daily Planet helicopter containing Lois Lane. The chopper blows up, signaling the death of a classic and beloved DC Comics character: Frank the helicopter pilot. RIP.

Lois, meanwhile, manages to jump out of the exploding chopper in time (probably out of pure muscle memory) and is rescued by Steel in a rather familiar-looking scene.

Lois tries to turn the tragic situation into an exclusive interview with Steel, but Steel has something more important to do: chewing Superboy's butt for scaring off those criminals he was trying to interrogate (and, you know, causing a man's death). The Kid is like "I'm da real Superman, yo!" and bails... but as he flies away, he actually starts questioning his half-assed approach to superheroics. I'm sure Frank's wife and 12 children would find great comfort in that.

Meanwhile, Steel is approached by Lex Luthor Jr., who wants to offer him a job as one of his armored security guards (because having one S-shielded superhero in his pocket isn't enough for him). To butter Steel up, Lex offers him the location of the White Rabbit -- aka, the lady distributing all those highly advanced weapons to street gangs. Steel thanks Lex for the tip and immediately ditches him, making it clear that his services aren’t for sale.

Steel drops by the White Rabbit’s penthouse, and she turns out to be an old flame from his time as a weapons designer for the military. Things almost get steamy for a second in there, until Steel remembers that this lady has made him indirectly responsible for countless deaths (all those weapons are his design). Once she takes the hint that Steel won’t work for her (either), White Rabbit just shoots him point blank with one of those big-ass guns, launching him off the building and into a convenient tanker parked outside.

Superboy (who was following Steel to apologize for being a dick) flies in just in time to pull Steel’s body from the resulting tanker explosion:

By the time Superboy and Steel return to White Rabbit’s penthouse, the place is already empty. The two Supermen then bond over that whole “we’ve both caused innocent people to die today” thing and part amicably. Awww!

Plotline-Watch:

Ponytailed scumbag Jeb Friedman, having given Lois Lane WEEKS to recover from her fiance’s supposed death, urges her to “forget Clark” and go to Cairo with him. Don Sparrow says: “I hesitate to even mention that the hated Jeb Friedman appears here, and even Jimmy doesn’t want Lois rebounding with him. Serious question, though: are we supposed to hate Jeb? Or is it just happenstance?” If we weren’t supposed to hate Jeb, would they have given him a ponytail, Don?

After meeting Steel, Lois reflects on the fact that the other Supermen may look like Clark, but Steel is the only one who acts like him. Obviously she doesn’t think Clark’s already been reincarnated as an adult black man, but she does seriously wonder if ghostly possession is a real thing.

I love how efficiently Steel’s backstory is presented in this issue. As he and White Rabbit are about to lock lips, we see a handful of black-and-white panels showing the two working together for the military, hooking up, finding out his weapons were being used against innocents in Qurac, and then a flashback-within-the-flashback of Steel’s grandparents having just become victims of gang violence. It’s only half a page but it tells you everything you need to know about this dude and his motivation.

Superboy burns his hands while rescuing Steel, even though a clone of Superman should be equally invulnerable. Hmm. Hmmmm. Hmmmmmm.

The issue ends with Supergirl telling Lex she’s going off to look for Superboy, which leads to the next issue of Adventures.

And this leads to the end of my section! For more commentary, Easter eggs, and gratuitous images of White Rabbit, check out Don Sparrow’s section after the jump:

Art-Watch (by @donsparrow):

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like none of the other four Superman titles seems as swayed by the importance of the storyline as SMOS. What do I mean? I mean that when it’s a big storyline, like Panic in the Sky, or Doomsday, the art on the title really seems to rise to the occasion, and there’s some standout stuff being produced. But in the meantime, when a story doesn’t feel as important, the quality seems to dip a little. To me, this is one of those issues. We begin with the cover, and it’s not one of Bogdanove’s best. Sure, his artwork could be called cartoony at the best of times, but this one really took on a loose, loony tunes sketchiness, particularly in Superboy’s “ain’t I a stinker?” expression and giant wall of teeth. He looks less like a 16 year old than he resembles Rex Leech, a character we’ll come to know better in time.

Inside, the story gets off to a slow start, as we’re abruptly thrown into a video of wannabe gangsters, moving in on where they think they’ll find John Henry Irons. The double page splash revealing his location is an exciting one, and Dennis Janke does some interesting things with his hatching to indicate the shine of the metal, leaving certain areas unhatched to show a glimmer.

Bog’s depictions of The White Rabbit continue to push the envelope for how much skin a comic code approved book can show, both on page 7, and then later in the book. [Max: This next sequence of panels burned itself into my young mind. Because of the cool panel layout, I mean.]

[December 2018 edit: White Rabbit’s body has been covered with Mike Carlin’s face so that Tumblr doesn’t delete this post. Sorry.]

Page 8 brings us a long sought after in-comics cameo. If you’ll recall, back on one of my first reviews on this site, I interviewed the great Tom Grummett and asked him if there were any Easter Eggs that we should look out for while we were reading. He answered that "My personal favorite moment was when Jon Bogdanove drew me in a scene with Jimmy Olsen in one issue of Man of Steel. I’m the one with the moose on his shirt. Happy hunting.” Well, we need hunt no more, as a certain fellow pops up, arguing with Jimmy Olsen, and what’s that on his shirt? A moose?! Found you! [Max: Are we the first on the internet to point out this cameo? I don’t have time to look it up, so let’s go with “Yes”.]

I also love the little gag in the lettering, where the first part of “Saskatchewan” (Tom’s home province) is shown as “Saskatch” and then below that Bog has written “W-1”, phonetically completing the phrase. It’s also a very Neal Adams-y couple of panels when Jimmy and Tom start to get heated debating who the real Superman is. [Max: I wonder if the Neal Adams-esque panels above are homaging a specific Adams comic, or just his “intense argument” poses in general...] Then a page later, there’s an unmistakable rendering of another Super-Teamster, none other than group editor Mike Carlin, scanning the police radio for scoops.

As the story progresses, there’s a great shot of the Metropolis Kid (who they refer to as Superboy on this page, without a rebuttal from the Kid) showboating and holding one hand behind his back. But, on the page that follows, a pretty heavy end for Daily Planet chopper pilot “Frank”, made all the more sickening by the lack of concern from the Kid leading up to this point.

Some great visual callback on page 12, as the mob scene when the Man of Steel rescues Lois Lane recalls the meet-cute at the shuttle disaster wayyyy back in MOS #1.

The scene were John Henry confronts the Kid about his carelessness is well-done, even if it gives way to another mention of the preposterous ‘spirit-walk-in’ idea, which even these characters seem to find tenuous.

The flashback with White Rabbit does a good job of filling in the gaps of John Henry’s history (interesting how similar Irons’ motivation is to that of Tony Stark’s, at least in the movies) but it’s an odd scene—not just because of the aforementioned vamping from White Rabbit, but also Irons’ inaction in the scene—he went there to capture her, but mostly just stands around and then lets her stroll back over to the bed, where a weapon is clearly visible from where he’s standing. [Max: Can’t imagine what else he could be looking at.]

As The Metropolis Kid rescues The Man of Steel, we get more looney tunes-style comedy, when the Kid comedically blows on his burning hands, trying to cool them. They seem to be working hard to establish how different his powers are from Kal-El’s, though they eventually go back on almost all of this stuff.

Moving on, we get a really nice look at Lois at a rainy window, once again musing on how the Man of Steel, while physically the most removed from Kal-El, seems to embody his “soul” more than the rest.

STRAY OBSERVATIONS:

Is the cameraman gangster supposed to be a riff on Spike Lee? The glasses seem pretty similar to ones Spike wore at the time.

How is it that we never noticed such a giant, futuristic tower on the Metropolis skyline before?

Jimmy Olsen wearing a Spin Doctors t-shirt is a little too meta for my head, since one of their biggest hits was “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”. What does the DC Universe Jimmy think when he hears a song about himself, lusting after Lois Lane? They were also one of my favourite bands when this issue came out, so my mind was doubly blown.

What is it with Lex hanging onto VHS tapes? Thank God he never got his hands on that one of Big Barda! [Max: Dammit, I’d JUST managed to erase that from my mind, Don.]

#superman #louise simonson #jon bogdanove #dennis janke #steel #superboy #sydney happersen #white rabbit #ron troupe #tom grummett #mike carlin #jeb friedman #spin doctors #supergirl #possibly spike lee #rip frank chopperson #reign of the supermen

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fuzaointerviewproject · 4 years

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Online project | #03 Ti Re Zhong & Erzhuo

Round #03

Erzhuo：EZ

Ti Re Zhong ：TRZ

Erzhuo ask questions, and Ti Re Zhong answer

EZ: It is exactly one year since I first saw the clay ear decoration you made, because this is a nickname that I have been called since primary school. Every time I see your IG update, I feel like I (?) in cue. . Originally is a small, then into a large wing, and jump on the screen, my ears want to hear your ear story.

TRZ: Hahaha, I call you again and again. In fact, the first ear story came from a small story in the picture book four stories.

"Became ears"

Here is an ear that lives in a shellIt said,

"speak to everything by day and come back here at night to become your own ears."

You see the moon has become an ear

The ears go from lying in the shell to the wings on the back, which is like a process of enlarging and shrinking oneself.

"Became ears" series by Ti re zhong

EZ: Ears ask: why ears?

TRZ: I think ears are very fragile, sensitive and soft. In the story, I use "ears" as a metaphor for myself. The ears are full of secrets about breathing, growth, and love, like whirlpools that go round and round and then sink. Put one ear to the other during the night and listen: “ sasasa... he start to telling a story.”

“Ear’s wings” by Tirezhong

“Ear moon” by Tirezhong

EZ: Were your first art works three-dimensional or planar?

TRZ: Most of them are flat, and usually at the beginning of a story I might make them have text, and then a picture. Or just have a picture. When I get used to doing something one way it lasts a long, long time, like my breakfast with the same ingredients and the same way for months without getting sick. I don't know if that's good. But now I will consciously think about how to present when I leave the plane. Also try to cook your usual ingredients in a different way.

"Making Love" series, by Tirezhong

“A broken ear” by Tirezhong

“Ear butterfly”by Tirezhong

"The spread of fire"

“Unknown name fire”

EZ: We gave each other old toys before, I'm really happy that you like the old toys I gave you! I've never seen any of the rabbits you received. When did you become interested in old things? Does your clay work have anything to do with the cute toy you bought?

TRZ: I remember when I was a child, I would not play with toys, it seems that after going to Japan, see there are all kinds of small toys is simply too cute, yes! Yeah, that's when I started noticing that I was interested in toys with emotional expressions. My clay works also have expressions, but most of them are sad and cry like me, hahaha.

"Clay" Series by Tirezhong

EZ: When I was in Beijing last year, I was honored to see the comics you created after your graduation. The slow-paced narration is very nostalgic, sentimental and gentle, which arouses my sense of nostalgia and reminds me of my childhood. I'm not good at telling stories, so I was curious why I chose comic books as the narrative.

TRZ: The picture book story is about my understanding of death. It is made up of eight short stories. They represent the journey of life and death by way of dialogue and travel notes. Each image of the story has a connection, starting with the earth and going back to the earth as a symbol of the cycle of life. So every picture is continuous, because life and death is a long journey.

University Graduation work, comic strip book by Tirezhong

EZ: Your paintings are so tender and lovely! (again, I was attracted to traits I didn't have.) Talking to you before feels like you're avoiding the hurt of some negative emotions and choosing to see the cute side of things. Do you have trouble creating? And if so, what?

TRZ: I think most of my works are full of sad emotions. For a long time, I don't like to accept my negative emotions, which is just like partial eclipse. However, my body will become unhealthy after a long time. Later let oneself get used to slowly a mouthful of eat it. In fact, it is easy for me to encounter difficulties hahaha, I will stop first, maybe not continue for the next few days, or to do another work, but in my mind will continue to work it, the rest is waiting for them to knock on your door.

Some Zine made by Tirezhong

EZ: You took me to appreciate the Sichuan flavor of the dirty words, enriched my words to express emotions, here to offer sincere thanks! Your personality jumps back and forth between the angel and the devil, the devil of the angels and the angel of the devil. How do you incorporate this quality into your work?

Hahaha you are an walking Xinhua dictionary, I dare not offend the angel! I think it's because of my character, I can't hide my secret, so it is naturally exposed in my works.

“Ears” by Tirezhong

“Cochlea” by Tirezhong

EZ: I heard that you had the good fortune to meet a good teacher at your university. Do you miss the time you spent as a student and a friend, creating works of art? Now do you want to go back to school and study again?

TRZ: Really, I was really really lucky! She taught me how to tell a story and how to express my emotions. I also want to stand on the balcony of the dormitory with my friends and admire the green hillside. I don't think "further study" is the right word for me. I am still eager to learn, but now I want to learn and experience life in my own surroundings and activities.

“Park” photo by Tirezhong

EZ: As the brain only has the ability to cope with a single core processor vegetable chicken newbie want to know: how do you allocate your work and art creative time?

TRZ: Now I'm unemployed again, and in my old job I really just took time out of my work to make art. Sometimes I feel that I need to separate myself. When I am working, my head is still relatively free to think about some works. The rest of my work is to squeeze time from work.

Photos by Tirezhong

EZ: It's a digression：do you deliberately separate your private life from your public life?

TRZ: My public life is actually quite few, I almost live in their own private life, I feel no need to deliberately, they can be separated naturally..

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Ti Re Zhong ask questions, and Erzhuo answer

TRZ: Was there anything that changed your understanding of death during the months of being trapped in Wuhan by a novel coronavirus outbreak?

EZ: Really rarely talked about this topic, maybe because at the beginning of the epidemic? The air was suddenly heavy and hard to save. Must say that the words is "Those who come are fickle, those who die are helpless."

All of a sudden, I’m using these rhetorical words, feel a little uncomfortable, but I can't find a better word to say. I have neither experienced death also don't know understand death. The only feeling during the Covid-19 epidemic is to cherish life? Life is borrowed and must be given back when it is due.. I want to experience more of what I've never done before my physical and mental capacity declines permanently，want to experience more of both physical satisfaction and self-actualization (what a greedy adult :P). Then give it back (life) when you've used up.

“Before the outbreak of the coronavirus, this cat often visited my balcony to see me”, picture by Erzhuo

TRZ: During the Covid outbreak, you were not allowed to go out. Did you often look out of the window at home? Did you see anything or anyone that impressed you?

EZ: In my memory, I often looked out of the window of my apartment during the early period of Wuhan's city closure. Unfortunately, I was not used to it at the beginning, and it was not until half a month later that I finally opened my mind. This is a desensitization process in essence, because my apartment is just down the road, I would look out the window every day and see the supermarket replenishment across the street, they get their stock three times a day.

Occasionally I was restlessness and anxiety when the supermarket delivery truck arrives an hour or two late.

Because go out NG, the biggest goal of life - - pick up garbage natural NG (NG means blooper, is a short clip from a film or video production, usually a deleted scene.) I'm not sure I'd pick up some lethal virus and come home and... At that time, I could only watch the staff in the opposite supermarket coming out to throw garbage. They are usually packed in cardboard boxes and vegetables. Once they threw out and sold leftover, not fresh vegetables, and two yellowed broccoli dropped miserably out of the trash can and rolled out onto the road, the urban wild animals are all walking sideways on the road, the days of quarantine are so long that even the dog forgets the car and should to get out of the road.

That scene was so sad, so love tenderly, it hit me right in the heart, like a mother's love flood + my addiction be poked in. Really like to be discarded rotten things, my heaven is like that.

“Broccoli discarded by supermarket staff” photo by Erzhou

In fact, in the end I always stayed close to the computer screen window. Like an old internet diver, the traces left by netizens who have desperately squandered their vitality have always made me remember deeply.

TRZ: It feels like you're really good at playing with yourself. After spending a lot of time with yourself, do you sometimes feel like leaving or doing something that doesn't really matter to you?

EZ: I love to play with myself should be the constellation theory of the pot, I do not back.

Plus,, when I'm alone, I sometimes laugh like an intermittent maniac. I'm scared. What about you? In Hangzhou, which is a more peaceful place than Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, I have been spoiled by myself and become a social misery, well.. like leave a message or profess privately to someone I like him.. Usually, the percentage of time I have fun with myself is very high. the appearance is rigid, my inside like mild on the outside but wild on the inside (it's me), the treatment alone actually quite contradictory. I never wanted to leave my private time, but I would also like more communication.

Erzhuo accidentally collected a cheap ring when looking for work material

Parts of our ring kingdom project

Once I have chosen to do something, can I not be considered irrelevant to me? (If I am forced to do it, maybe it 's better to get out of me.) I will do it if I have a connection with this thing that we can not easily disconnect. The thing I've always done is to finding myself, and I'm very proud for this, during the epidemic, I did something that had nothing to do with art (like starting to look together CP with my half brothers).

Also, for example, when I wrote something, I find that my level of Chinese language was terrible, and then I started reading some books that helped me to extend my personality; or I was drawing something I like, it turns out that the structure is also very important, not the corruption of the academic formula in the taste of rot. It is therefore I think it is necessary to disable my autism mode from time to time.

Now let's go back to the discussion: recently, I always thought this phrase "people have always been alone, but in the depth of solitude and are closely connected", and I was unable to detach from this mode ... and therefore, I think I could still have fun with myself for my life remains.

TRZ: When I saw your works for the first time, it seems to me that they were a bit aggressive. The things that made me feel aggressive, were they produced in a state from you wanted to protect yourself?

EZ: Yes ah. (Stand hand) My heart occasionally longs for the bold character of the Zuan people (The Zuan people refer to a group of people in the "League of Legends" game. They speak very rudely and also have a bad temper. When they opened their mouths, they can immediately annoy other players, and this kind of people are "zuan people").

It was a long time until now that I finally found out, maybe my memory is too good in certain things, it's never enough to keep away from some past things. from my childhood people has always been laughed at me in an enigmatic way, they said my mood was always at the height of adolescence (laughs). Also quite good.

Some people know the world from the front, and others from the back. I belong the second. Recently, I have found this to be very common. Who are not strong in self-protection are actually a bit problematic, and the forced transformation of Buddhist-style people is also a compromise for life, the people and some things around you will benefit from a weak point in a not-positive way to stimulate you and instinctively make you generate passive protection mechanisms. Probably in this context, I was discussing with myself how to balance those correct and absurd errors, and how do I, if in the situation when you don't realize, don't become an obscure, cheap and harmful accomplice. Now I still very care these arguments, I feel that these things can confuse me all my life. I know, those works that make aggressive sense were ideas basically secreted antibodies? even they don't have the theme, it has to do with the things I said before, but the inner emotions are still evident.

The Erzhuo work series "Valentine's Day" exhibited in prsntsnt

TRZ: When you finish working an opera and look at it after a while, do you try something special? Do you want to delete and edit again?

EZ: I usually feel embarrassed and ashamed when I look at works from the past, No matter how often I looked at the contents of my work (very personal) or a very intimate work, I still remember the causes and consequences that happened at that moment, It's like it was yesterday, so I often sighed: the childish confusion that I brought from my mother's womb is really the same, and it hasn't even changed a bit. It's unbelievable, If the motivation for creating a work of art is enough simple, so cancellation and modification will never turn to me.

Untitled, partial by Erzhuo

Even when you talk about having self-confidence is important? Many concepts in my current age group have not been fully rooted, only with intuition, can you feel that some intangible things in life and works are gradually forming by intuition and the ability to give intangible and tangible skills gradually increases with knowledge.When everything is unfinished, it is impossible to say old and particularly powerful words in this context. (For example, it's not bad to say something rebellious and flamboyant during adolescence.)

Mein Fruhlingbrise du, Du mein Sommerregen by Erzhuo

TRZ: Do you have any habits when creating? Usually, how do you construct your work?

EZ: The word "construction" I remember academic education in the school. Before I graduated, I returned my theoretical and practical knowledge, and my utilitarian and reputable hearts I closed them all in the drawers of my old class.

The process of forming the work is so abstract ... in the end it always became just a meeting of sharing personal experiences (laughs). The motivation is to regularly download my personal emotions through the exit from my work of art? I always felt that the inspiration and the corresponding expressions were born: when I walked, I imagined, and instead when I had free time, and I rehearse.

Erzhuo's habit of creation.

Then I became very fast and my energy concentrated on the aesthetics that interest me, and the related contexts, and rain and dew do not exist. if there were no technical problems I worked not too slow, because the inspiration disappears if I don't finish it quickly, and it is very difficult to sort the semi-finished waste extracted from the soul.

Siick series by Erzhuo

TRZ: Will you repeatedly question yourself during the artistic creation process? How would you relieve anxiety?

EZ: Absolutely, I chose to use (artistic) creation to find myself again, because compared to other ways, by creating art I can get the maximum fun, the damage is getting lost and collapsing easily. Being human is unexpectedly complex: I have always tried to discover myself with simple methods, but it has never been realized.

How to relieve anxiety

To relieve anxiety, of course, I need to be ingested nicotine (imitation is prohibited), although it is just an easy-to-use social label and intractable habits. you also need to break away from social networks every now and then.

TRZ: Online solution: you have done several part-time jobs, what are your job requests? Because I think you can change your different state very well, so I envy you.

EZ: The current job application is money (hands on the waist). When I read, novel vision of my favorite animation there is a phrase "Work, is nothing more than entertainment to maintain mental health (in the rough sense)", I burst into tears, shit, it seemed like myself.

? ? ? to tell you the truth, I can't change my state very well. I guess you never saw when I got lost like a stray dog. I feel guilty if I let my bad secondhand emotions infect others.

Chat history by Erzhuo

TRZ: I want to know, in your opinion, what is the most difficult point to get along with people?

EZ: The proportion of private and public life. And excessive communication out of control.

Now my attitude towards friendship is basically in a state where I would rather put my relationship with my friends on hold for a long time rather than start casually state.

"You come to me through all good things" by Erzhuo

TRZ: If you can become anything, what do you want to become and why?

EZ: The four-legged monitor in my CP room. Because they deserve and must be happy.

Flashlight received by Erzhuo in Guangzhou Garden District

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ERZHUO

Now lives in Hangzhou.

Usually like to pick up garbage and watch birds.

Create with visual media such as garbage and materials discarded by others, and explore the contradictory relationship between the virtual world and the physical body of real life. Indulge in making life bodies with silver metal texture. Recently focused on personal projects-ring plan.

Ti Re Zhong

Currently lives and works in Shanghai.

Love listening to stories, telling stories and drawing stories. Each time you create art, it is like organizing your memories in a not-so-large room, and then describing them in different ways. Finally, hide in the quilt and tell yourself the story, and then tell you.

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Contact:

Instagram: erzhuo_babypink & ti_re_zhong

#chineseartist #china #emergingartist #artconversation #shanghai #hangzhou

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gyroshrike · 7 years

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To everyone who saw the Kalematsuba Call-Out Post

I’m not sure where to start, and my chest is getting kind of tight just trying to plan it in my head, so I’m just gonna try and start saying words and hope it comes together in the end.

Now, I’m absolutely not well known on this site, so you really have no reason to listen to me, but all I can do is speak from the heart and those of you who read this will have to decide whether what I say is worth anything.

Also, I’m not here to show you proof of anything. I can only share my opinions of and my experience with Kale and of these events in a way that I hope resonates with people who aren’t sure how to feel or who maybe jumped too quickly when faced with a call-out post.

I’ve been following Kalematsuba for two years, since he first made his current blog. Since then, this is the first I have ever been confronted with the idea that Kale has the past he does. And I know that’s the cue for a lot of you to claim he’s been keeping it a secret, but what I mean is, is that since I followed Kale I have seen nothing that alludes to him drawing anything other than wonderful, enjoyable, safe content and being anything other than a genuine, trustworthy human being.

I pride myself on having a pretty good bullshit detector and judge of character. When I meet someone, people who usually turn out to be negative or bad people I don’t want to associate with, I usually feel the vibes instantly. I listen to what people say, how they say things. I listen for those same vibes. Kale has never, EVER, not once, given me those vibes. I have never felt uncomfortable talking with him one on one, in a group setting, or as part of his audience.

Now, this not a post debating on whether or not what Kale did was wrong. I’m not here for that. Sexualizing children and child-like characters is bad. (I’m also not here to argue how ethical it is to age up child characters for the purpose of sexualizing them because that’s a whole other can of worms.)

Kale fully acknowledges what he did. When the news broke out in the personal discord channel he mods for his followers he admitted immediately to anyone who didn’t already know the situation:

“for the sake of transparency, I DID used to draw femboy art and "shota" like characters..but it was never about drawing "cp" it was so i could cope with being an effeminate boy..and then people sarted commissioning me for that type of work and it got way grosser than i ever intended it to”

For people who are construing was Kale said in a post he made earlier, then deleted, it wasn’t about sexualizing children in order to cope with dysphoria. That was not what he meant. He was referring to drawing effeminate boys, “effeminate boy” being how Kale felt at the time. It wasn’t about an attraction to the characters he drew. He saw himself in his art. These effeminate boys were representation of him to varying degrees. Unfortunately, what happened is this expressed itself using a very shota style and characters that were originally created to be underage.

That being said, Kale himself admits that it got out of hand. He is not denying he did something bad. He’s not denying the unhealthiness of the situation.

A follower who experienced this with Kale also added this about the people who would commission artwork from Kale:

[ALL SCREENCAPS ARE STAMPED WITH HST TIME ZONE]

“Kale was groomed into their incredibly posessive circle he tried to escape and they threatened to hurt him [and] eventually they finally lost interest”

Kale said nothing of this and did not ask to be defended. This was said unprompted. This is not meant to excuse Kale, but to perhaps give a little bit more insight into the context of the situation. He talks about it fully here.

All of the screencaps are from Kale’s discord, which was the first discord I ever joined and Kale always made it very clear that it was a safe place and had little tolerance for bullshit or anything that made any of his followers feel unsafe. Kale’s discord is now the standard I hold other discord channels to. They need to be safe, healthy, supportive places.

“I've been dealing with an actual dangerous procontact pedophile, but tumblr goes after the savior who rescued me”

“heres the thing of it. i have been a victim of pedophiles. these people are sick and horrible. YOU kale are no pedophile. i get a vibe from those sickos but you make me feel okay, your aura is safety. YOU ARE A WONDERFUL PERSON WITH A HUGE HEART whome i respect and care about, as i do everyone i know. i will support you 100% and thats that”

“Coming out of the woodwork here to just say: Nobody likes who they were 5 years ago, you know who I was 5 years ago? A 14 year old girl who shipped my male classmates for the sake of seeing "hot Yaoi" I made and laughed at rape jokes, I contributed to the "women suck" stereotypes put out by a bunch of teenage boys

Four years ago I pushed away friends I loved dearly for the sake of saving face with a "good artist" I admired, I regret it immensely, but my mindset from 4 years ago was different from what it is now. I used to judge who I become friends with based on their artistic ability alone

Three years ago I made a post that got really popular about the "jock/nerd soulmates" trope, I was the originater and romanticized an abusive trope bc I thought it was a good idea, I was 16, now I realize what a mistake that was and I've learned the error of my ways

TL;DR: Tumblr fucking sucks, it's a toxic place, and people will jump at any thread of drama they possibly can if it means they can unravel someone being successful in a way they can only dream of being

Kale, whether you were into shouta art or not doesn't matter, what matters is that you've moved past it, you're done with it, that's not the person you are now and you've grown as a person Your past mistakes do not define you and what you've accomplished, the things you've learned do.What you've made here, all the art, your own community, your freaking comic that a lot of people are onboard with, that's what's amazing and incredible and you should be proud of itYou are better than this, you are better than who you were 5 years ago, and if these holier-than-thou internet teenagers can't even try to understand that people can change, then they don't matter. They're not worth your time, your tears, or your work”

These screencaps are just from today. These don’t even begin to cover the time and time again that people have found support and comfort and a healthy environment in Kale’s discord from many a number of things not limited to: mental illness, abuse, traumatic experiences, suicide, and even gentler more mundane things like life and art advice.

Another point I would like to make about the validity of Kale’s character. In the call-out post posted today (August 21st, 2017), all OP does is link to their previously made call-out post (August 21st, 2015). There is no added material, no new art, nothing, to attest to any continued behavior or art that could reflect negatively on Kale. Which to me, implies that Kale has so soundly changed as a person and what he features in his art, that OP didn’t have anything else to say about him. Mind you, the original post is 2 years old and Kale shut down his pixiv and patreon years ago.

Kale himself said that:

“i literally havent drawn an ounce of that stuff in 4 years”

OP is not bringing anything new to the table. Nothing has changed from 2015 to 2017.

And if anyone receives hate mail from someone claiming to be a supporter of Kale, they are not from Kale’s inner circle and did not get is permission to do so. We within the personal discord agree that this situation will be met only with calmness and positive support for Kale. Anyone attacking Call-Out OP or their supporters is acting on their own or is a fake with the intention of further defaming Kale.

WHY I IMPLORE YOU TO KEEP SUPPORTING KALE

He is creating 1989nk to for trans and nb youth like him, who, from dysphoria and a lack of representation, may will seek out media or express themselves in ways that are unsafe or unhealthy.

He does not want what he experienced to happen to other trans and nb youth. That’s why 1989nk has such obvious trans colors on the front. He wants potential trans readers to see it, read it, and feel validated, safe, and represented.

I truly believe anyone who really looks into Kale’s current work, how he feels for 1989nk, the heart and soul he’s put into it, would see the kind of person he is.

Look, when I’m with my friends, I’ll be the first person to lean over and say something is problematic, makes me uncomfortable, or might be unhealthy. Anyone who knows me well can tell you that I never, ever stick my nose into tumblr discourse. So, if I’m sitting here addressing you all like this, it’s because I wholeheartedly believe in this person with everything I have.

I believe in Kale. I trust Kale. I wouldn’t follow him or support his work if I didn’t.

But then again, you have no reason to trust me. You may have to look and decide for yourself.

#kalematsuba #kalechippu #discourse #misinformation correction #sweethearts of 1989 #putting this is that tag #because the original call out post was posted in it #okay to reblog #if this made you think or reconsider AT ALL #please reblog #especially if you reblogged the call out post #navi notes #suicide mention #abuse mention #long post

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dailyserperior · 7 years

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Have any tips for starting a daily pokemon blog?

Ahhh i’m not sure if I’m a good person to ask but I can try to give some tips! (I think I’ve been asked this in the past too but my nets not really letting me go look right now)

Also this got a little long so I’m sorry ;v; Also i’d take everything I say with a grain of salt, I’m just a nervous person who loves serperior

But if you want to start a pokemon blog, defs pick a pokemon you not only love but love to draw! Doesn’t matter if it’s been done before, it hasn’t been done in your style! Everyone will add their own touch to how they draw. Like no lie one of my fav things is seeing how various people interpret a pokemon, heck even when they interpret YOUR pokemon (I may or may not have several things saved of people drawing Ex in their style cuz its so COOOLLLLLLL, let alone my serp folder)

Sometimes though the pokemon may be hard to draw and you may get frustrated. Like I know I could never run a sceptile blog like my friend does. ( @weekly-megasceptile ) I’ve drawn her sceptile a few times and hoo boy it wasn’t really that fun for me. I give Mint mad props for drawing that thing. My sister ( @occasionallymew ) has come to me a few times because she needed help drawing a pokemon or wasn’t sure on what a pokemon was. in her own words

“It’s why i have the bean [bean is how she and I refer to her mew Jesus]”

So if your favorite pokemon isn’t fun to draw for you you may end up just not having fun. And then you won’t want to run the blog.

That being said if your design is hard don’t think you can’t do it! draw it a bit before starting your blog to see how you like it and it’ll also get easier the more you do it.

Funny enough before I started drawing daily serperior I actually wasn’t that great at drawing snakes. I rarely did. I mostly draw humanoids and monsters and gore. So drawing a snake each day was interesting, more so because I like to draw Serperior closer to a python than how it canonically look (this is kinda the reason they are much rounder how I draw them)

But after drawing it for over 400 posts, I’ve gotten pretty good at it, I don’t really need to look at refs as much for how noodles curl, I can normally just figure it out on my own. I also no longer need to look at pictures of serperior when I’m drawing because I’ve just gotten so used to it. Like I know where to put the yellow curls, I know the husks.

That’s another thing though! this is more a general art tip than daily related, but don’t be afraid of using refs!! Don’t trace or copy directly but using a reference is a wonderful thing if you are unsure of something or the like. Like I have a folder on my laptop that is literally filled with pythons. Just lots and lots of snoots.

Another thing is a bit harder because I can get how discouraging it can be, but don’t feel down if you don’t get a lot of asks or interactions right off. And this may seem a bit mean, but don’t rely on asks to give you content for the blog. The internet can be a fickle place so you may not get the asks you want or many asks. When i started off I didn’t have too many asks if any so I just drew Serperior (this was before I decided to make it my character of excalibur) doing whatever, mostly it was related to Christmas because when I started I was in the middle of finals right before winter break. I was using this as a way to decompress each day after classes, and slowly i started to get some asks.

Depending on your frequency of update, the time you update, how you tag, and your sense of humor or the like, can affect if you get more asks. It also depends on how you interact with your asks.

Sometimes a post will sky rocket and then you get flooded. That’s kinda what happened with Daily Serperior, I can’t remember if it was the Gengar Plush post or the pizza post or even the move in post I had made, but something set off and I got asks a lot.

And don’t be afraid to turn your inbox off if you need to!! I know I’ve had to a few times, actually I had it off for a while, i had it reopened for the giveaway in case people had questions about it. I’ll be closing it again for a bit once I’ve finished the giveaway, because I get overwhelmed easily and it can lead to stress.

Also on the subject of asks, don’t be afraid to delete an ask that makes you nervous or uncomfortable!! Sadly not everyone is super chill, and occasionally you get some weird or bad asks. God am I no stranger to that. Honestly that’s the reason I’ve closed the ask box a few times, some people don’t like listening if you ask them to not send a specific thing. And sometimes it’ll get bad enough you want to quit (I’ve actually had a friend stop their daily blog because she got so tired of a certain type of ask). And if one person keeps sending don’t be afraid to block. I hate blocking but I’ve had to block a few blogs because they would send me asks time and time again on a subject I explicitly asked to not be sent because it makes me highly uncomfortable.

Now to get away from the negative,

All and all a daily blog is mostly about having fun. Interact with the community, send asks to other blogs ect.

Oh that reminds me, but depending on you, if you want to send in character asks it may be good to make a separate account not just a side blog.

With dailyserp i can’t actually follow back or ask as this account it’s a side blog. I do all my following and asks from my main @abunnydreamingofkisses

(so if you see that name in your notes or watcher list it’s me!) Or i send asks on Anon. I typically send anons to other blogs because I’m pretty shy. I’m always terrified to talk to people. I’m also just really bad at holding a conversation because I just have issues coming up with things to talk about. or I’m drawing and I’m hyperfocused. So if you plan to interact more it may be best to have a separate blog. I never expected to actually get any followers I just wanted to draw a doofy noodle, so I made it a side blog and I sometimes regret that but at the end of the day it’s easier for me.

Another thing is I know there are a number of discord chats you can potentially join! I personally don’t join group chats because it actually will spike my anxiety, I love people and I like to chat and makes jokes but due to a few poor experiences with group chats in the past I have to avoid them to keep from having panic attacks. But if you are able to maybe ask around see if you can’t join some. you’ll make friends most likely and memes are kinda a good way to get followers oddly enough (people like to laugh haha)

If Humor isn’t your thing maybe go for plot. I Know I follow a few plot based blogs and man it’s killer waiting for an update. Like over at @daily-poppy-primarina I adore the Brutus story line. I’ve got a thing for monstrous characters so learning about the dark primarina is really fun.

I know on serp I focus mainly on humor with a sprinkling of plot, but that’s mostly because almost all my asks are humor based. I actually do have a plot all written out in a notebook on this noodles past, and I even have a comic I keep meaning to finish up after I lost the original but lifes been in my way (hence my multi week hiatus)

also never be afraid to take a break. I think that has to be my last tip. I hate taking breaks but sometimes it’s needed. Sometimes you’ll get burnt out, sometimes you are over whelmed, sometimes you just feel like getting away. It happens. But don’t let it control you to the point you hate your blog. Take a step back take a breather. It’ll be okay.

At the end of the day it’s about you having fun creating a thing you want. Draw, Write, send memes to ect.

So I guess that’s all i have to say ;v; sorry for the length I’m really bad with being concise haha

#anonymous #ask #sorta snek #Mun rambles

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honooblze · 7 years

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Why JP&CH yoi fans are hating Kubo? Does Kubo love yuuri/victuuri?

Read an article on a Chinese apps about yoi production team and Kubo sensei discriminate and hate yuuri katsuki and victuuri. In order to praise her beloved yurio and his ships(otabek x yurio, Victor x yurio), Kubo sensei has mocked and criticized on yuuri katsuki not only once since early 2017. People from Japan and Chinese community are guessing the official yoi is trying to change the protagonist to yurio.

Disclaimer: I am just trying my best to translate this article into English. I didn't write or own this article. I did asked for permission to translate. I am sorry if this sounds strange to you. Apologize on my shitty English. But Japanese and Chinese yoi fans are not quite happy with Kubo and official yoi lately. For a better insight of this issue you can go to some Japanese/Chinese/Taiwanese yoi community.

Original text:

http://madaopeinifangfei.lofter.com/post/1e8a4380_fd952f1

Why am i writing this, i have says it on my weibo (chinese facebook)

the relationship between production team and fans is not simply giving and receiving. it is materialistic. we are communicating through money. However, not every production team is smart enough to take response from fans. if you only receiving from what they give you, the result may not be pretty.

i am not bragging about yoi fans and i am not trying to play smart. in this case, we are all victims.

luckily japanese yoi fans are trying their very best since april 2017. in my opinion, yoi production team is listening to fans’ opinions. however i cant promise you all that the production team will listen to your comments and thoughts and give you the ideal yoi film or season 2. if the production team is listening to our opinions, why cant we bargain with them?

10th feb

during allnight boardcasting, kubo sensei mentions about dvd and bluray bonus, “do you want to see yurio skate?” “this comic will make yuri’s angel very happy.”

3rd april

animate releases the designed of yoi storage box which drawn by kubo sensei

the picture of victor and yuuri’s figure skating practice is in the draft. however it has disappeared from the finalized design.

10th april

pash magazine may vol. is released. yoi content is about Sayo Yamamoto interview, she mentions, “(vol.6 first press and all vol. bonus) this will make yurio and otabek fans really happy and delighted. the quality of yurio’s figure skating performance is the 2nd best! (the best will be stammi vincino)”

Sayo Yamamoto promises “all victor in vol. 6 will be perfect and flawless” (which is “true”)

at the same time Sayo Yamamoto says in vol 6 there will be some slight changes which make the relationship between each character change. Sayo Yamamoto’s interview had brought some discussions and fights among yoi fandom. his speech implies in vol.6 there will be no full version of victuuri’s stammi vicino. this makes many yoi fans hesitate to order vol.6

moreover, in this promotion interview, yuuri katsuki’s name is NEVER MENTIONED

on the same day

yoi official twitter announces vol.6 first press bonus

it is obvious that the last first press bonus is yurio’s welcome to the madness and complete vol. bonus comic, it hints kubo sensei will be the author of the bonus comic and the comic will be about yurio and his figure skating performance.

10th-16th april

yoi official twitter deletes yurio’s figure skating performance twitter as top post

16th april

da vinci news reports yoi vol.6, the title is “yoi first press bonus makes fan excited, must order” this report is not quite reporting the real situation, because of this yahoo news, some fans are questioning on the official yoi

24th april

yoi official twitter posts the cover of vol.6, and says the bonus will include stammi vicino with no subtitle version.

29th april

announce there will be yoi film

16t may

postpone the release date of the setting art book for the third time, and post a picture titled “prize giving ceremony”. in this picture

-the height difference between victuuri is strange

-victuuri are not wearing their rings and victor is wearing his gloves which contradict with GPF ceremony in the last episode of yoi

-yurio’s facial expression is so different from the anime

-yurio’s shoes have some miskates

-JJ is missing (he is the second runner up)

-there are shades on victuuri’ faces

people are pointing out these strange elements and mistakes from this picture. the illustrator of this picture says on his own twitter he had drawn victuuri’s rings but the publisher take them off with “some reasons”

17th may

the illustrator of GPF ceremony closes his twitter (says he closed it on 16th may)

the fusosha (a japanese publisher) changes the title of this picture to “off shot after GPF prize giving ceremony” however this cannot explain to victuuri’ fans why the hell yurio is standing in the middle. fans are criticizing yoi again.

at the same time, in the description of animate’s setting art book bonus, it was still GPF prize giving ceremony

18th may

illustrator of GPF ceremony says this picture is all about yurio’s smile. he drew this because of his smile. his attitude makes yoi fans angry because he wants to push the responsibility to victuuri’s fans.

21st may

an otayuri fan suggests fans go to a japanese book shop to get otayuri “magazine” on twitter. yoi fans says this magazine might be complete vol bonus comic and she immediately deletes her twitter account.

22nd may

in late night, this fan changes her profile picture to victuuri’s beach scene in episode 4, and she apologized about her bonus comic tweet.

at around 1 am, yoi fans question her motivation in changing her profile picture to victuuri. then she deletes her profile picture.

8pm, official yoi and animega apologize on their official twitter, due to some misunderstanding, staffs mistakenly send out 11 copies of complete vol bonus comic.

after 23rd may

suddenly there are many posts which criticize on victuuri’s fans hate content of first press bonus, also there are many posts criticize on the scandals of official yoi.

25th may

because of that otayuri fan, people realize there are not many victuuri in the bonus comic. fans are spreading this news all over the internet. also, yurio’s personality is so different in the comic compare to the anime, it is wired that victor as the coach allow yuuri lifts himup and victuuri are not wearing their rings, etc. these strange content make fans so confused and puzzled.

some fans points out that kubo sensei in the appendix commentary says yuuri doesnt have any friend in front of yuuri’s cv(voice actor), this make yuuri’s cv and yurio’s cv so embarrassed and dead air for a long time. at last yuuri’s cv tries his best to end this awkward situation. also kubo sensei is not looking happy throughout the whole commentary. the only time she is excited is when victor is holding yurio in his arms. her attitude makes fans question about her interest on yoi. gradually, kubo sensei shows her hatred to yuuri(and yuuri’s cv and victor). her hatred(or i will say anti-yuuri and anti-victuuri) makes yoi fans discomfortable and angry. many fans are hoping and telling kubo sensei to quit yoi production team. at the same time fans are questioning if kubo sensei truly creates yoi.

at last in the appendix art book, the age of all characters are not available. otabek and yurio as teenage are performing slightly inappropriate are making some fans feel disgust and disapproval.

26th may

release date of vol6, official yoi twitter is not excited

in the evening, the news of Hiramatsu Tadashi’s illustration for ost makes the official yoi twitter excited. according to yoi fans, like and share of Hiramatsu Tadashi’s illustration tweet is 2 times of release vol6 tweet

…………………………………….

this girl and her friends had analyze why the official yoi is sort of hating yuuri and victuuri because of changing sponsorship. she did not include any screencapture of the above incidents.

I love yoi since october 2016, i love yuuri at the very first episode when he is crying in the bathroom. I have bought tons of magazines about yoi and whole set of yoi bluray. in my opinion, i can sense kubo sensei is not that into yuuri at the very beginning but i never question about it because hey, i dont wanna argue with anyone. it is obvious that kubo sensei likes victor and yurio. just look at her twitter.

i am not saying that this is the truth. but i translate this girl’s article just want to raise your awareness on victuuri and yoi. to be honest, both japanese and chinese yoi fans are not quite happy recently because of the official yoi’s attitude. many great fanart artists and fanfic writers abandon yoi because of kubo sensei’s attitude and ofiicial yoi’s attitude.

if yurio is going to be the protagonist and have all the attention and be the central uke.i will not watch season 2/film. i will not support this yuri on ice and please kubo go away. if you dont even like yuuri katsuki. let hiramatsu sensei do the work. at least he respects all the fans and the characters. besides the official yoi disgusts many of us that they are trying to make yoi yaoi but then they deny this anime is yaoi or what so ever. its like telling you 1+1 is 2, when you learn that then slap you in the face saying this is wrong. i dont mind the production team wants more money from yoi but like listen to what fans want please.

we want victuuri. victuuri is the reason for us to watch yoi and love yoi(or figure skating if you like). if you think yurio can make you gain such a profit/success? go ahead because we only need one tsundere protagonist in anime which is ritsu onodera.

#kubo sensei #victuuri #victor x yuuri #yuuri katsuki #Yuri on ice #yuri katsuki #otabek x yurio #yuri plisetsky #yurio #victor nikiforov #YOI #long post #kubo mitsurou

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neptunecreek · 5 years

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There Are No Magic Words That You Can Post to Change Instagram’s Terms of Service

Every so often, a rash of identical posts starts to take over social media. This isn’t the work of bots, but the result of a number of people believing that these words will have an effect on the terms of service of Facebook, or, in this most recent case, Instagram. In fact, there is nothing you can post online that will change a social network’s terms of service. And currently, Instagram’s terms aren’t even changing in the first place.

Here’s how this goes: people hear there is going to be a change to a company’s terms of service. It usually takes the form of “there’s going to be a new rule that means Instagram owns the copyright of my pictures.” It’s often not even true—there is no new rule. These companies do require users to license—not give—user-posted content to them so that companies can share them. On all of the major social media platforms, users keep the copyrights in the photos and videos they create and upload. No major platform has ever had terms of service that claim to transfer users’ copyrights. But in response to the rumor, a bunch of people start posting a paragraph of legal-ish sounding words that, talisman-like, they believe will prevent this thing that isn’t even happening.

It happened with Facebook in 2012, when people started posting this:

For those of you who do not understand the reasoning behind this posting, Facebook is now a publicly traded entity. Unless you state otherwise, anyone can infringe on your right to privacy once you post to this site. It is recommended that you and other members post a similar notice as this, or you may copy and paste this version. If you do not post such a statement once, then you are indirectly …allowing public use of items such as your photos and the information contained in your status updates.

PRIVACY NOTICE: Warning - any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structure including but not limited to the United States Federal Government also using or monitoring/using this website or any of its associated websites, you do NOT have my permission to utilize any of my profile information nor any of the content contained herein including, but not limited to my photos, and/or the comments made about my photos or any other “picture” art posted on my profile.

You are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing, disseminating, or taking any other action against me with regard to this profile and the contents herein. The foregoing prohibitions also apply to your employee, agent, student or any personnel under your direction or control.

The contents of this profile are private and legally privileged and confidential information, and the violation of my personal privacy is punishable by law. UCC 1-103 1-308 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WITHOUT PREJUDICE

The law cited there has nothing to do with any of this, but it certainly sounds convincing. This was so prevalent it has a Snopes entry. (Snopes rates it “false.”)

Facebook got hit again with this kind of hoax again in 2015, with one that looked like this, typo and all:

In response to the new Facebook guidelines, I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc (as a result of the Berner Convention).

There is no Berner Convention. There is a Berne Convention, but it doesn’t do what this notice claims. Sometimes the notice mentioned a “Rome Convention,” which still does not grant the post magic legal powers.

This brings us to 2019, where Instagram finds itself in the same place as its parent company Facebook once did. Here, via Forbes, is a version of this same story floating around:

Don’t forget tomorrow starts the new Facebook rule where they can use your photos. Don't forget Deadline today!!! It can be used in court cases in litigation against you. Everything you've ever posted becomes public from today Even messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry. Channel 13 News talked about the change in Facebook's privacy policy. I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute. NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tacitly allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. FACEBOOK DOES NOT HAVE MY PERMISSION TO SHARE PHOTOS OR MESSAGES.

This isn’t how privacy or copyright law works. This isn’t how contract law, which governs your relationship with a company’s terms of service, works. And it does not matter that Judd Apatow, Julia Roberts, Usher, or Secretary of Energy Rick Perry all fell for it.

While this phenomenon has been called a hoax, a scam, and a new iteration of the chain letter, it’s also something like a superstition. People are legitimately concerned about the power of giant companies like Facebook, and it’s kind of believable that it’d be able to make these kinds of rules and you, the user, would be stuck with them. Thinking there must be some legal way out of this unequal relationship—that the law wouldn’t let one company act with impunity in this way—isn’t so irrational. And so these words keep popping up and, since there was no change in the first place, they seem to “work” and do no harm—like knocking on wood—so everyone forgets for a couple of years.

Perhaps if there were many competing services, we could choose the one with the policies that best protected us, but, until then, there are no magic words that a viral post can have that will change the terms of service you agree to by using Instagram. Perhaps the influential people who've fallen for this hoax should instead focus on ways to bring much-needed competition to Internet platforms

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Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 14, 2019

16 NEW TO NETFLIX

"Apollo 13" "Blue Jasmine" "A Clockwork Orange" "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" "Doubt" "Dr. No" "The Hurt Locker" "Junebug" "Layer Cake" "The Notebook" "Strangers on a Train" "Synecdoche, New York" "Tyson" "W." "Wet Hot American Summer" "Winter's Bone"

11 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD

"Bedazzled"

When Stanley Donen passed away last month, the rapturous praise for his career was pretty overwhelming. He made movies that mattered to a lot of people, including widely-cited classics like "Singin' in the Rain," "On the Town," and "Two For the Road." The same year he released that last film, he dropped a comedy classic starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook called "Bedazzled," coincidentally just released on Blu-ray by the great company Twilight Time. Conceived by Cook as a vehicle for him and his comedy partner, "Bedazzled" is a comedy riff on Faust that really highlights their great comic timing and reminds one that Donen really could do anything. The fact that this and "Two For the Road" came out within three months of each other is remarkable. Buy it here

Special Features Isolated Music & Effects Track Peter Cook & Dudley Moore on The Paul Ryan Show A Bedazzled Conversation with Harold Ramis Original Theatrical Trailers

"Burning"

One of the best films of 2018 gets a relatively lackluster Blu-ray release, although the trend away from physical media should make us happy it's getting an HD disc at all, I suppose. Criterion has released Lee Chang-dong's work before, so we can also hope that they do their magic upgrade thing for this movie soon. Until then, just rent or buy this version of a movie that's both thriller and social drama, containing some of the best writing, direction, and acting of 2018. This not even being nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, when it arguably should have won, is a crime. (Steven Yeun deserved a nod too). The less you know about this movie, the better. Just watch it. You won't regret it.

Buy it here

Special Features About the Characters - Featurette Trailers

"Creed II"

I have to admit that when I started seeing previews for "Creed II" that they made me a little sad. "Creed" is a fantastic film and not one that demands a sequel. (Although it's arguable that neither did "Rocky".) The good news is that this is far from the disaster that it could have been, largely because Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, and Sly Stallone don't treat it like a cash grab. They invest themselves completely in these characters yet again, especially Jordan, who continues to prove that he's one of the best actors of his generation. They bring depth to a script that isn't as nuanced as the first and direction that's not as accomplished as Coogler's but this is a totally solid sequel, a step down from the first movie but nowhere the collapse that I once dreaded.

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Special Features From Father to Son, Blood Runs Hot - Featurette Finding the Authentic - Featurette The Women of "Creed II" - Featurette The Rocky Legacy - Featurette Deleted Scenes

"Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald"

We generally only include releases in this column that we can recommend but enough people love this series that we'll make an exception for the most dour blockbuster of 2018. Seriously, when did this world get so depressing? With the exception of a few top-notch tech elements and the always-welcome appearances of Jude Law and Zoe Kravitz, there's little to warrant a look other than if you feel an obligation to keep up with what's happening in J.K. Rowling's world, one that started with such joy and wonder but now seems content to wallow in its worst tendencies.

Buy it here

Special Features EXTENDED CUT OF THE FILM (141 min). THEATRICAL CUT OF THE FILM (134 min). J.K. Rowling: A World Revealed Wizards on Screen, Fans in Real Life Distinctly Dumbledore Unlocking Scene Secrets: The Return to Hogwarts Unlocking Scene Secrets: Newt's Menagerie Unlocking Scene Secrets: Credence, Nagini and the Circus Arcanus Unlocking Scene Secrets: Paris and Place Cachée Unlocking Scene Secrets: Ministere des Affaires Magiques Unlocking Scene Secrets: Grindelwald's Escape and the Ring of Fire Deleted Scenes

"The Favourite"

The Oscar winner for Best Actress (and a nominee for Picture, Director, Screenplay, and much more) is already available for rent and purchase. Yorgos Lanthimos most acclaimed film is a sharp comedy that really works best as a platform for its three incredibly talented stars. It's rare to see a movie that gives roles this juicy to not one actress but a trio of them, and then gets performances this incredible from all three. Personally, the script doesn't work as well for me as it does for some people (neither do the fish-eye lenses) but as a performance piece? It's easily one of the best of the last few years.

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Special Features Deleted Scenes The Favourite: Unstitching the Costume Drama

"Green Book"

Maybe you've heard of it? The most divisive Best Picture winner of the decade is already on the home market for people to see what all the fuss is about. What I've found helpful is to just listen to the conversation around "Green Book." There has been some incredible writing about problems that people have with this film's troubling grasp on history and white savior narrative. Even if you don't agree and want to embrace the movie's crowdpleasing aspects, take the time to hear the other side. So much of what divides this country comes down to a complete unwillingness to listen to counterpoints. And if you like this movie, you probably point to its "can't we all get along" aspect as one of its strengths. Well, follow that lesson and truly listen to the people who are honestly offended that this movie even exists, much less was named the best of 2018. I'm not saying your mind will be changed or that it should, but great cinema should start conversations, and you have to listen to have one of those.

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Special Features Virtuoso Performances – Go behind the scenes with Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali as they discuss their characters and the lengths they went to accurately portray them. An Unforgettable Friendship – Cast and filmmakers discuss the friendship between Don Shirley and Tony Lip. Going Beyond the Green Book – Filmmakers and cast discuss the significance of The Green Book.

"The Guilty"

One of the best thrillers of 2018 is a film that you probably haven't seen, but it's now available on Blu-ray and DVD. This award-winning German film is a single-set piece that plays beautifully with perspective and miscommunication. It tells the story of a worker at an emergency call center who gets a call that will change his life. Convinced he's speaking to a kidnapped woman, the worker does everything he can to save her life, but he learns that he's made a few assumptions about exactly what's happening on the other end of the line. Smart, tightly-written, and thrilling, this is another foreign language film of 2018 that deserves your attention.

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"The Little Mermaid"

Want to feel old? "The Little Mermaid" is as old now as "Sleeping Beauty" was when Ariel's story came out in 1989. To celebrate the film's 30th anniversary, Disney has pulled it from the vault and given it a shiny polish for a 4K release. Watching it with my family, I was actually startled at how old it did look, as we've become so accustomed to CGI animation in 2019. The hand-drawn charm of this one remains and the colors and line details have never looked better. The storytelling may be thin by modern terms, but the music is still the real draw. It almost makes one long for the day when all Disney movies were musicals, especially when the original songs were this unforgettable.

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Special Features Sing-Along Mode Alan Menken & the Leading Ladies Song "What I Want From You…Is YOUR VOICE" Stories From Walt's Office – Gadgets & Gizmos #TreasuresUntold DCapella "Part of Your World" Music Video Deleted Character: Harold The Merman Under The Scene: The Art Of Live Action Reference Howard's Lecture Audio Commentary With Ron Clements, John Musker and Alan Menken

"Ralph Breaks the Internet"

There's little music and nothing hand-drawn in "Ralph Breaks the Internet," also recently released on Blu-ray and DVD. Will people still be watching this one in 30 years? I do wonder how the film's heavy emphasis on technology will age. However, the main theme of this film is timeless in that it's really about how Ralph's insecurity takes over his world. Who can't relate to that? Most of all, I love that one of the main themes of this film is allowing your friends to have their own pursuits and interests. An overwhelming amount of family films are about "getting people together" that it's nice to see one that says it's you can still love your friends when you're apart too.

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Special Features How We Broke the Internet Surfing for Easter Eggs The Music of Ralph Breaks the Internet Deleted Scenes BuzzzTube Cats Music Videos – "Zero" by Imagine Dragons and "In This Place" by Julia Michaels Baby Drivers – Slaughter Racing School

"The Standoff at Sparrow Creek"

Turnaround times on indie films from theater to DVD can often be incredibly quick. Take this little thriller that we reviewed in January and is already on Blu-ray. With echoes of David Mamet and Quentin Tarantino, this is the kind of flick that should have a long life on the home market, passed along through word-of-mouth. It's smart, tense, and really clever. Be the first one in your circle of friends on the bandwagon to watch it and then tell everyone you know to do the same.

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Special Features The Making of The Standoff at Sparrow Creek - Featurette Photo Gallery

"To Sleep with Anger" (Criterion)

The Ebertfest presentation of this Charles Burnett film in 2017 was one of the highlights of that year. It's a challenging film to describe to people. Even the plot synopsis is deceptively simple: "An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA." Yeah, that's part of what fascinates people about this movie, along with arguably Danny Glover's best performance, but it really only hints at the depth in Burnett's work. This is a conversation starter, a film designed to get people talking not only about the plot of the movie they just watched but the mood, tone, and cinematic language. Check it out as soon as you can.

Buy it here Special Features New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Charles Burnett, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray Of Family and Folklore, a new interview program, featuring Burnett, actors Danny Glover and Sheryl Lee Ralph, and associate producer Linda Koulisis A Walk with Charles Burnett, a new hour-long conversation between Burnett and filmmaker Robert Townsend that revisits Burnett’s films and shooting locations Short video tribute to Burnett produced for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards ceremony in 2017 PLUS: An essay by critic Ashley Clark

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5 September 2017, The Rise of Totalitarianism

I was going to put this in chronological order, but decided to put my response to it all up front. The readers, if there are any, can decide for themselves to read what prompted my response on The Rise of Totalitarianism.

“Dear [name deleted],

“We share your love of the environment and in our own way we do our part. However, we see an even greater near term threat, and that is the rise of totalitarianism from the left. Absolute insanity is gaining traction; for example, some California legislators want to make it a criminal offense, with jail time, for using the “wrong" gender pronoun. The violence and hatred coming from the left, the “mainstream” left, is, in our opinion an immediate threat — much more immediate than the environment.

“Not to mention that apologist, spineless Obama who did all he could to encourage rogue nations like Iran and North Korea, the latter of which now has a hydrogen bomb and has no reservations about selling nukes to the highest bidder. The threat of an EMP device launched from North Korea and detonated over the USA is something Obama should have “fixed” during his 8 years of playing golf. There are very few options left; diplomacy has proven not to work with N Korea and a military option may be all that is left. An EMP device that succeeds in taking out the electronics in everything from the electrical grid to your cell phone will result in about 90% of the population of this country dying, and probably billions globally after the USA becomes a 4th world country.

“Even without the threat of 300 million deaths in the USA alone, the totalitarianism that is inherent in the attitudes and actions of the progressives, liberals, or whatever you want to call them, is an absolute evil, just as bad in its own way as Hitler was.

“When freedom and democracy are once again secure in this country, which today they are not, then we will have time to do more for the environment. In the meantime, we are ready to defend freedom, democracy and the Constitution against the totalitarianism of the left.

. . .

“I must say that I cannot understand your passion or your single minded focus when the 'father' of 'climate change' (Al Gore) is demonstrably one of the biggest hypocrites alive today, with an electric consumption perhaps a hundred times greater than the average American family. What an absolute jerk he is. Maybe 10% of your time should be spent exposing him, and only devote 90% to exposing Exxon.

“Frankly, we think the country may be irreparably damaged (reached its political tipping point) and its survival as a nation is in question. It is even possible there will be civil war, and if that happens it will be a much worse blood bath than the first civil war. So you can go “nail” Exxon if that’s the most productive way you can think of to spend your time. We plan to do what we can, while battling my cancer and my wife’s depression, to preserve freedom and democracy so that when you’ve solved the climate problem this will be a free country where people can live in relative peace and harmony, and Christian bakers won’t be driven out of business by the totalitarian left.

“When you have personal news you want to share, please write, email, or phone. When you have anything else to share, please share with someone else.

Still a friend”.

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This is what led up to my essay.

My wife forwarded this to a friend who is particularly concerned about climate change, or global warming if you prefer. He reacted from his single issue perspective which colors everything he does. But first the item my wife forwarded. I wish I knew the author, as I’d like to shake his or her hand. It was written in response to events of the recent horrific flooding in Houston.

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AUTHOR UNKNOWN (to me):

“We are still a great people. The rescuers remind us of that. But we lack the culture or the politics to reflect that greatness. The noble impulses that lead men to risk their lives in flooding are there. But our society no longer has the vessels to hold and sustain those impulses. The media doesn't quite know what to make of the rescuers. You can see the itching to return to the stories that it knows and likes. Russia. Trump hit pieces. People punching each other in the street over politics. It swerves at the first sight of a Confederate flag on a rescue boat or Ted Cruz's Sandy vote. It doesn't want to dwell on the best of us. Behavior like that doesn't make sense anymore. Generations have grown up with leftist protesters as their definition of heroes. Look in a history book and the last 70 years consisted of "heroes" who marched around waving signs until they got everything they wanted. And everyday in the news there are more "heroes" marching for illegal aliens, transgender bathrooms, the supremacy of black lives and any other identity politics cause. But waving a placard to the adulation of the media isn't heroism. Saving lives is. Our culture has quickly forgotten that less than two decades ago, men carrying half their weight climbed to the top of the World Trade Center to save lives. They died there. The America of a hundred or even fifty years ago, would have immortalized them. Ours drowned them out in tantrums, in whines, in anger and outrage, in malicious noise. They were a dangerous reminder that we were a great people. And our destroyers desperately wanted us to forget. They wanted us to sink to the bottom. Not to rise to the moment. The secret of so much of our greatness was simply that we tried. We took our best and we made it the cultural norm. Every people tell themselves that they are wonderful and destined to rule the world. The Germans and the Russians believed it and it led them to ruin. But we told each other that we were decent and we became decent. We told our children that the moon could be theirs. And it was. We told them that we could cure diseases. And we did. That we would prevail over the atom bomb. And we did. That we would change the world. And we did. But more importantly, we told them about sportsmanship. We told them to stand up for principles. To take pride in hard work. To believe in the future. To tell the truth. To help old ladies across the street. To tie knots well. To sacrifice for family. To see themselves as heroes, however unlikely. We made all of those things into a culture. That was the secret. Anyone could have done it. You just had to believe. And that culture has been slowly dying. Some days it looks almost dead. Our culture and politics exist to give us permission to lie in the mud. That has become their unhidden purpose. Decency is a dead language. Shock value is our entertainment. Contempt and outrage are our national discourse. The Chinese build cities and islands. We yell at each other over the Internet. It's hard to remember a time when writing the Great American Novel was an ambition. The American novel is dead. Literature, like art, has become segmented into high brow garbage and low brow garbage. The aspirational middle brow culture is dead. The movie theater is filled with billion dollar adaptations of comic books, Disney rides and cartoons. The handful of teens who can be pried away from their phones long enough to watch something they'll forget five minutes later aren't even the target audience. America is a stopover territory on the way to the real markets in the teeming cities of China. How does a culture like that deal with heroism? It can't. It doesn't have the vocabulary for it.”

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In response to this, our very liberal, single issue friend wrote back:

“Don’t know who wrote this. Not smart. Here’s what I’m writing. Researched climate science since I retired [in] 2009. Its about the Earth math. Like any system, Earth’s environment responds to a pulse of input like carbon. How long does it take to respond to reach a steady but higher temp? 30 years. Here’s the test. If you apply a reverse pulse, how long does it take to get relief? 30 years, because the physical dynamics are the same. This happened in the 1970s when Exxon discovered they were already destroying the place. Rather than man up, they voted to hire experts that knew how to confuse the public (mocking libtards) and discredit the same sciences that made them rich. If they decide to research how to apply a reverse pulse and then go do it (fat chance), to save their lifetime customers who were only ever given one kind of energy, your kids will see not climate relief in their lifetime (or yours). The Gulf of Mexico is a roulette wheel of grief and death. Houston will cost $180B. The bill should go to Exxon, but Sec State Exxon has a better idea: you can pay it. Exxon paid-Republicans: “No problem, and climate is normal, its just nature, goes to the Dems deficit anyway.” During the 30 year reverse response period, tipping points can be exceeded. Run past a couple or three of those and climate is out of control, goodby humans. Bugs will be OK. Unfortunately for the planet, during the debate about atmospheric testing of nucs, nuclear winter was modeled and found to be a high risk threatening the common planetary good. So, we are served by a treaty that everybody adheres to, even the N. Koreans. Unfortunately, because Sec State Exxon is going to fix climate damage, which is "not happening," with nuclear winter, a sudden climate solution after crazy N. Korea (and hapless S. Korea, Japan) get vaporized. “Hey we didn’t know this would happen, but look, Exxon fixed 2 problems.” End of democracy and life as we knew it. They are going to dig up every last fossil molecule and meter out nuc bandaids for eons, because they can’t be stopped. And they LOVE THEIR VOLUNTEER HEROES CLEANING UP AFTER THEIR GRIEF: IRAQ, SYRIA, LIBIA, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, RITA, KATRINA, HARVEY, and this list will double and triple.

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